Motivational Quotes

Love

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

13.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

14.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

15.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

18.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

25.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

26.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

31.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

34.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

38.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

42.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

49.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

50.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John